UNIVERSITY LEVEL LEARNERS ACCESS TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING IN PUBLIC SECTOR UNIVERSITIES OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA

Abstract

Social media is commonly used in this present technological era and no one can deny from its importance because it has become a necessary part of our life. Similarly, on the other side English is also an international language and having global importance, and is used in our education system as a compulsory subject that is why the present study was conducted in order to find out the access of university level learners to various social media sources for English language leaning. Major objectives of the study were: to find out access of university level learners regarding the use of various social media sources for English language learning at university level across gender groups, and discipline groups. The study was descriptive in nature that is why self-developed questionnaire was used for the collection of data as a research instrument. Similarly, the data which was collected from the given sample of population was arranged, coded, analyzed, and tabulated through SPSS version 24. Statistical tools which were used for analysis of the present data were percentage, mean, standard deviation, independent sample t-test, and one way ANOVA post hoc. After the successful completion the findings of the present study clearly revealed that majority of university level mature learners have access to the use various social media sources for English language learning.